Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Well, for starters, they should've used the Opteron 150 vs. the Nocona 3.6 GHz, shouldn't they?

Why penalize the AMD part with one speedgrade (2.2 GHz instead of 2.4 GHz), and limit it to 512K L2 vs. 1MB L2???

But nonetheless, the 3500+ wins on content creation, audio encoding, pov-ray, database insert.

Nocona is ~10% faster on superPi, but they state that they don't know what optimizations were compiled into the binaries!!

They also note that they did not compile Linux for each processor, but used what came out of the box. Probably not a big deal.

Then they come to what they term more "synthetic benchmarks".

The most surprising is probably the chess benchmark. "TSCP". I suspect an error, or bad optimization options, because on another chess bench, Diep, Prescott is known to suck.

Someone will need to review the makefiles provided for 'ubench' and 'john the ripper' to see what's going on. I find it hard to believe the results, unless these are essentially L2 cache-size measurement programs.

Finally, it may be nothing, but the second half of the title is "Intel's 64-bit suggestion".

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